Cultural memory against institutionalised amnesia: the Togliatti amnesty and Antonioni’s I vinti
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DOI: 10.1017/mit.2018.18
Abstract: This article studies post-war Italy’s forgetful attitude towards its Fascist past by interpreting a political measure, the Togliatti amnesty (1946), and 1950s film censorship as ‘institutionalised forms of (…) amnesia’ (Ricoeur 2004, 452). The amnesty,… read more here.
Keywords: institutionalised amnesia; memory institutionalised; togliatti amnesty; fascista ... See more keywords
Conversion and Cultural Memory in Medieval Iceland
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640719000507
Abstract: Christianization was an important and traumatic event that became embedded in the cultural memory of Icelanders. Through the reconstruction of this event in historical narratives, there was an ongoing debate on the identity of Icelanders… read more here.
Keywords: memory medieval; cultural memory; medieval iceland; group ... See more keywords
Cultural memory and making by US Central Americans
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DOI: 10.1057/s41276-017-0093-8
Abstract: This article centralizes the work of Central American US diasporic writers and artists within memory studies while expanding on the emergent ways of seeing and being for US-born or raised Central Americans. I posit that… read more here.
Keywords: making central; memory making; cultural memory; united states ... See more keywords
“A Line from a Song that Punches You in the Stomach” –Music and the Negotiations of Cultural Memory in Facebook
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DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2021.1958444
Abstract: This study examines the role music and social media can play in forming and revising cultural memory. We analyze responses to a call delivered on Facebook to suggest and discuss the Israeli “soundt... read more here.
Keywords: song punches; facebook; cultural memory; music ... See more keywords
Haunting and the Aesthetics of Trauma in A Woman in Berlin and For Those Who Can Tell No Tales: Redefining Cultural Memory
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DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2018.1555923
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper offers a comparative analysis of the aesthetics of trauma in the German film A Woman in Berlin and the Bosnian film For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, both of which address… read more here.
Keywords: cultural memory; tell tales; woman berlin; aesthetics trauma ... See more keywords
Decolonizing cultural memory in Andrea Levy’s Small Island
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DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2019.1633554
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines Andrea Levy’s 2004 novel Small Island as a postcolonial trauma novel that revisions cultural memory of World War II and its aftermath. Utilising the insights of Stef Craps’s Postcolonial Witnessing, it… read more here.
Keywords: small island; cultural memory; memory; andrea levy ... See more keywords
The ‘ravaged body’ as carrier of cultural memory in Farid Boudjellal’s Petit Polio series
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DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2017.1288640
Abstract: ABSTRACT Farid Boudjellal’s Petit Polio series (Soleil/Futuropolis, 1998–2012) is a bildungsroman that contests the narrative and aesthetic deployment of disability as prosthetic metaphor in the post-colonial context. In this series, the male, disabled, Franco-Algerian body… read more here.
Keywords: polio series; farid boudjellal; series; petit polio ... See more keywords
Haunted by Cultural Memory: Analysing Spectral Presence in Select Novels of Amy Tan
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DOI: 10.1177/09760911221092826
Abstract: This article depicts how Tan, following several writers of contemporary American literature, widely uses recollected cultural memories to construct ethnic ghost narratives in her novels that address the predicaments of Chinese immigrants in the US.… read more here.
Keywords: analysing spectral; haunted cultural; spectral presence; cultural memory ... See more keywords
The historiography of kardimarkara: Reading a desert tradition as cultural memory of the remote past
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DOI: 10.1177/1469605318817685
Abstract: The idea that the kardimarkara tradition in the Lake Eyre region is a distant cultural memory of the remote past, of a time when the desert once teemed with life, was propelled into the public… read more here.
Keywords: kardimarkara; tradition; cultural memory; historiography ... See more keywords
Sacred Memory, Creole Orientalism and India in the Plantationscape of Mauritius
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DOI: 10.1177/17506980211037284
Abstract: This article disentangles the relationship between memory and the sacred through the life and selected writings of Léoville L’Homme (1857–1928), who rose to prominence as poet and journalist in the 19th century as sugar production… read more here.
Keywords: memory creole; memory; cultural memory; creole orientalism ... See more keywords
Viral Camus: Mapping cultural memory in the Covid era
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DOI: 10.1177/17506980231176036
Abstract: This article evaluates the place of The Plague in the emergent cultural memory of the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when the novel was said to have “gone viral” in popular culture. I ask what it… read more here.
Keywords: memory; cultural memory; covid era; memory covid ... See more keywords